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A week or two ago I asked whether anyone had ever tried to apply the
methods of historical reconstruction to reconstruct a known (attested)
language, then compared the result of reconstruction with the actual
language. The answer is yes; thanks to Daniel Radzinski
(drtovna.co.il), Deborah Yeager (kyeagermailhost.nmt.edu), ??
(macrakisosf.org), and Marc Picard (PICARDVAX2.CONCORDIA.CA),
several of whom mentioned that Robert Hall had done a reconstruction
of Latin on the basis of Romance languages. The reference is:
Hall, Robert A., Jr. (1976) PROTO-ROMANCE PHONOLOGY. Elsevier.